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More than a year after NSW MLCs Tony Kelly and Brian Pezzutti
returned from a European trip, they presented to Parliament
hundreds of pages of transcripts of meetings entitled European
and United Kingdom perspectives on agriculture, genetically
modified food and rural development.

Here are some excerpts:

On Italian tiles

Kelly: I've got marble tiles in my bathroom ... but
somebody dropped a bottle of champagne on it or something like this
and all the gloss has gone off it and you can't get it back.

Pezzutti: Well, I mean, this is the problem at Parliament
House. Parliament House has a very large beautiful foyer area of
Australian marble, gorgeous stuff, a lovely colour, and they can't
have drinks at the reception area around the fountain, which is a
gorgeous place for exhibitions and for launches and all this, so
you have to go from the launch, you have to go somewhere else where
there's carpet.

Kelly: To have a drink.

Pezzutti: To have a drink, and there's good reason
because of the cost of keeping it looking nice if you drop
champagne or white wine or red wine.

Kelly: Lemon, you said, as well.

Pezzutti: Lemon's terrible. Lemon's got too much acid in
it because that's basically a base, but some of the granites are a
bit better than that.

Kelly: Are these edible?

Pezzutti: I just eat them. I eat everything that's
around. I've very strong teeth. I've got very good Italian teeth,
and those Italian teeth eat everything.

Italian offical: You are really running short of time so
I ...

Kelly: Oh, thank you. Yes, sure.

Pezzutti: My grandmother had the same colour hair.

Pezzutti: ... the Turks have been making tiles for
millions of years.

Pezzutti: I mean, if you go to the homes of many of my
Italian friends in Sydney, the old people have got the house and
the whole thing is a ceramic tile from the front door to the back
door.

Kelly: That's right.

Pezzutti: I mean, up the walls, down the corridor, in the
bathroom, in the bedrooms, out on the front veranda, on the fence,
ceramic tiles everywhere.

Kelly: Even in the pot plants.

Pezzutti: We noticed on the train, didn't we, that the
tiles looked shiny but they weren't in any way slippery?

Kelly: At the train station, yeah.

Pezzutti: At the train station in Bologna.in Rome.

Kelly: In Rome or wherever it was.

Pezzutti: Just the styling ... but they looked very shiny
and yet not at all slippery. Great. Fascinating.

Kelly: A bathroom? Is there a bathroom?

Italian official: Just around the corner.

Pezzutti: You can go on the Adriatic coast.

On ham in Parma

Pezzutti: Are there? We are visiting Parma for a
purpose.

Carr: Foodstuffs.

Pezzutti: Foodstuffs. We are going to Parma for
foodstuffs.

Mr Bertini (Italian official): Parma is fantastic.

Mr Malonca (Italian official): Parma has this new economy
opportunity that before we had never had. It has boomed in the last
year because of Verdi, at the moment the Verdi Festival, I don't
know.

Kelly: The dairy festival?

Mr Malonca: No, Verdi. Giuseppe Verdi is, I am sorry.

On a prior visit

Pezzutti: I first came to Italy in 1975 looking for a
blonde-haired Italian girl.